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| "One fine morning in [[1623]], [[Avis aux curieux|Rosicrucian manifestoes]] appeared on the walls of Paris, informing the good citizens that the deputies of the confraternity’s chief college had moved to their city and were ready to accept applications."--''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'' (1988) by Umberto Eco | "One fine morning in [[1623]], [[Avis aux curieux|Rosicrucian manifestoes]] appeared on the walls of Paris, informing the good citizens that the deputies of the confraternity’s chief college had moved to their city and were ready to accept applications."--''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'' (1988) by Umberto Eco | ||
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| + | "Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics and its characters are triangles and circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one wanders about in a dark labyrinth."--''[[The Assayer]]'' (1623) by Galileo | ||
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"Like the lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."--Antony and Cleopatra (1623) by Shakespeare "One fine morning in 1623, Rosicrucian manifestoes appeared on the walls of Paris, informing the good citizens that the deputies of the confraternity’s chief college had moved to their city and were ready to accept applications."--Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco "Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics and its characters are triangles and circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one wanders about in a dark labyrinth."--The Assayer (1623) by Galileo |
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Year 1623 (MDCXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
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Art and culture
Literature
- La Doctrine curieuse des beaux esprits de ce temps, ou prétendus tels is a pamphlet by François Garasse.
- Procopius' long-lost Secret History is rediscovered, in the Vatican Library.
- Giambattista Marini publishes his long poem Adone.
- Tommaso Campanella publishes The City of the Sun.
- Jacques Ferrand publishes Maladie d'amour ou Mélancolie érotique
Events
- August 18 – Théophile de Viau is sentenced to appear bare foot before Notre Dame in Paris and to be burned alive
- Wilhelm Schickard invents his "Calculating Clock", an early mechanical calculator.
Births
- January 15 – Algernon Sidney, British philosopher (d. 1683)
- March 5 – Henri Sauval, French historian (d. 1676)
- June 15 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
- June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1662)
- August 25 – Filippo Lauri, Italian painter (d. 1694)
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (d. 1673)
Deaths
- January 15 – Leonardus Lessius, Flemish Jesuit theologian (b. 1554)
- 31 January – Johann Theodor de Bry was an engraver and publisher (b. 1561).
- August 6 – Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife
- date unknown Andrea Andreani, Italian engraver (b. 1540)
